Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors

You have several different options for displaying authors using the PublishPress Authors plugin:

1. Below the content. Go to Authors > Settings and click the “Display” tab. Check the box saying, “This will display the authors box at the end of the content”. In the “Layout” box, you can choose from several layouts.
2. The Post Authors widget. When you install the add-on, PublishPress Authors automatically creates a widget that you can use to show the authors. Go to Appearance > Widgets, and you can position your PublishPress Authors widget in any sidebar or widget area.
3. The Authors shortcode. With PublishPress Authors shortcodes, you can display the author box in any part of the content. The default shortcode is [author_box]
4. Editing your theme. PublishPress Authors allows you to show author details in your plugin or theme. You can use the action “pp_multiple_authors_show_author_box” to display the author box programmatically.

PublishPress Authors does use a different system than the WordPress core, so there may be some work involved with moving author data. When you first install PublishPress Authors, our plugin will try to import all your authors. However, there may be some more work needed if you have a large site or have been using a different plugin. After installing PublishPress Authors, go to the “Posts” screen to see if your authors have imported correctly. If you have a very large site with 1,000s or authors or posts, we recommend you use the WP CLI command line system. Click here to see how to import WordPress users.

PublishPress Authors has a Co-Authors Plus import feature. Co-Authors Plus is a popular but older alternative to PublishPress Authors. This import will bring across all your author profiles. It will also keep track of which posts the authors are associated with. If you want to migrate your site from the CoAuthors Plus plugin, please try this on a test site before attempting it on a live site. Click here to see how to import Co-Authors Plus authors. You can import from the Byline plugin to PublishPress Authors. Start with the old Byline plugin installed on your site. Go to “Authors”, then “Maintenance”. Look for the import option. Click here to see how to import Byline authors.

The PublishPress Authors plugin provides two widgets. The “Post Author” widget will display a list of authors for the current post. It is one of several ways that you can show the authors of a post. In your WordPress site, go to Appearance > Widgets. Look for the “Post Author” widget. Click here to see how to use the Post Author widget. The “Authors List” widget will display a list of all the authors on your site. If you want to show the authors of the post being viewed, try the Post Author widget. In your WordPress site, go to Appearance > Widgets. Look for the “Authors List” widget. Click here to see how to use the Authors List widget.

PublishPress Authors works well with the Elementor plugin. There are multiple options for showing Author profiles on your site. All of these will work with Elementor. However, we have made sure to make sure PublishPress Authors works with inside the main Elementor layout builder. Perhaps the easiest option for the Elementor layout builder is to use the Post Author widget. You will then see a simple author box in your Elementor layout. Click here to see how to create Elementor Authors.

PublishPress Authors works well with the Divi theme. There are multiple options for showing Author profiles on your site. All of these will work with Divi. We have made sure that PublishPress Authors works with inside the main Divi layout builder. Perhaps the easiest option for the Divi layout builder is to use the Post Author widget. Go to Appearance > Widgets. Create a new widget region using this Divi box. You will then see a simple author box in your Divi theme. Click here to see how to create Divi Authors.

The PublishPress Authors plugin allows you to show author profiles using this a snippet of PHP code. This code can be modified in many way to suit your needs. Don't worry if you're not technical. There are also other ways to show your authors that require no code. We recommend that you add these code snippets to a child theme, as that is best practice for WordPress theme development. We do have child themes available for some popular themes. Click here to see how to modify the authors output.

Author bios can be a tricky area in WordPress because many themes try to add their own author details. We try to help customers using PublishPress Authors and make sure that the plugin works with your theme. So far, we have child themes available to help compatibility with some common themes including:

• TwentyTwenty
• TwentyNineteen
• Newspaper
• Magplus
• Gridlove
• Hestia
• Kleo
• Salient
• Colormag
• Extra
• JNews
• MyListing
• Uncode
• GeneratePress
• Trellis
• Rehub
• Astra

There are other plugins available such as Co-Authors Plus, Simple Author Box, Molongui, Starbox and more. These are all really good plugins. PublishPress Authors stands out because of the advanced features and flexibility.

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the PublishPress Authors plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure  Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.